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markings, but nearly all the usual varieties were found among the examples from 

 each of the above mentioned widely separated localities, and all agreed with the forms 

 I have been accustomed to take at Emsworth, and with the descriptions furnished 

 in Stainton's Manual and Newman's British Moths ; I am still keeping the pupa? 

 separate in different cages, and mean at the proper time to give the moths a full 

 examination. 



Mr. Kay, through Mr. Harwood's kind interest, also furnished a good supply 

 of larvae of filigrammaria, of which I had never before seen more than a single 

 example : there does not appear to exist in this species anything like the amount of 

 variation that we find in dilutata, and the larva, while exhibiting many points of 

 resemblance to its congener, is abundantly distinguished from it, both in habit and in 

 appearance. 



Of any third species, so far, I have not been able to obtain an example, though 

 Dr. Buchanan White some time ago, in his able paper in the " Scottish Naturalist " 

 on the genus Oporabia, made a strong appeal for me : I wish now to repeat this 

 appeal, and to ask Entomologists, especially in Scotland and the North of England, 

 to try to procure for me during the autumn, a few eggs of all the species of this 

 genus, which they are accustomed to take in their localities ; particularly from those 

 moths which fly in September. 



Mr. Hellins is anxious to help in this investigation, as far as he can, by examin- 

 ing the eggs of each species under the microscope. — William Bucklee, Emsworth : 

 July 13th, 1881. 



Cosmia pyralina near Weybridge. — My friend Mr. McLachlan writes to me that, 

 on August 2nd, he shook a specimen of Cosmia pyralina out of a plum tree in a 

 garden between Weybridge and Guildford. The capture of this very local insect in 

 a county from which it has not before been recorded, 6eems to me of great interest. 

 — Chas. G-. Baebett, Pembroke : August, 1881. 



Notodonta cucullina. — Is it a common thing for Notodonta cucullina to be found 

 outside Buckinghamshire ? On Sunday, the 7th, myself and friend took four larvae 

 in a small copse on the road to the Gog-Magog Hills; and on Thursday, August 

 11th, we took nine, four full grown. I believe Mr. Grreene took the pupae at Tring, 

 but I have seen no other localities except Halton. — T. E. Sabine Pasley, Cavendish 

 College, Cambridge : August, 1881. 



Ichneumonidce infesting larvce of Gyrinus natator. — Last summer (1880), whilst 

 fishing for carp in the Exeter canal, I was moved to collect some eight or nine small 

 tough cocoons, which I found on the flags and rushes growing at the water's edge ; 

 most of these presently produced whirligig beetles, Gyrinus natator, but from two of 

 them emerged, somewhat later, ichneumons. 



Again this year, during the last week in June, I brought home a dozen of these 

 cocoons, and bred (July 3rd — 9th) six specimens of the Gyrinus, and afterwards 

 (July 13th — 27th) five ichneumons, not of one species only, but of three or four. 



So far Mr. Parfitt has made out two species of Remiteles (for one of which, 

 being apparently unknown, he proposes the specific name gyrini), a Pezomachus 



probably viduus, and one of the small species, I'tcromalus , which was perhaps 



hyperparasitic upon one of the former. 



